Destination: Disaster
The goddess who holds Odysseus captive for seven years and offers him immortality if he stays.
Who is Calypso?
The god of the sea who holds a severe grudge against Odysseus for blinding his son.
Who is Poseidon?
The arrogant leader of the suitors who is the first to die from an arrow through his throat.
Who is Antinous?
The six-headed sea monster who eats six of Odysseus’s men as they sail past her cliff.
Who is Scylla?
The island kingdom where Penelope, Telemachus, and Odysseus live.
What is Ithaca?
The homeland of King Alcinous, Queen Arete, and Nausicaa, where Odysseus lands naked on the beach and tells his long story.
What is Scheria (or the land of the Phaeacians)?
The gray-eyed goddess of wisdom who serves as Odysseus's primary divine champion.
Who is Athena?
The silver-tongued suitor who tries to blame Antinous for everything once the slaughter begins.
Who is Eurymachus?
The giant whirlpool monster that swallows the ocean three times a day.
Who is Charybdis?
The faithful old dog who recognizes his master despite the disguise, wags his tail, and passes away peacefully.
Who is Argos?
The people who give Odysseus's crew a magical flower that makes them forget all desire to return home.
Who are the Lotus-Eaters?
The messenger god who hands Odysseus the holy herb moly to protect him from magic.
Who is Hermes?
The contest Penelope sets for the suitors involves stringing Odysseus’s bow and shooting an arrow through this many axe-head sockets.
What is twelve (12)?
The enchanted enchantress on the island of Aeaea who turns Odysseus’s crew into pigs.
Who is Circe?
Penelope tests Odysseus’s identity by asking her nurse to move this specific object, which Odysseus built around a living olive tree.
What is their bed?
The dark realm where Odysseus travels to speak with the blind prophet Tiresias and sees his deceased mother.
What is the Underworld (or Hades)?
The sun god whose sacred cattle were eaten by Odysseus's crew, resulting in Zeus destroying their ship.
Who is Helios?
Penelope delays marrying any suitor for three years by weaving and unweaving a burial shroud for this family member.
Who is Laertes (Odysseus's father)?
The dangerous bird-like creatures whose seductive songs lure sailors to crash their ships into the rocks.
Who are the Sirens?
The old nurse who recognizes Odysseus while washing his feet due to a distinct hunting scar on his thigh.
Who is Eurycleia?
Odysseus's crew foolishly opens this right off Ithaca's coast.
What is the bag of wind?
The king of the gods who sends a thunderbolt to sink Odysseus’s ship after the crew eats the sacred cattle.
Who is Zeus?
The loyal swineherd who helps Odysseus defeat the suitors alongside Telemachus.
Who is Eumaeus?
The race of giant cannibals who pelt Odysseus's fleet with giant boulders, destroying all his ships except one.
Who are the Laestrygonians?
The disguise Athena gives Odysseus so he can enter his palace without being recognized by the suitors.
What is an old beggar?